The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-01-29
Maryland Affairs.

There were three robberies in Port Deposit
last Saturday night
The 51st Pennsylvania Veteran Association
will erect MONUMENT at Sharpsburg.
Hester Ann Carroll, colored, died in Bal
timore on January 81, aged 81 years.
Fred f. Benzinger, aSvell- known lawyer of
Baltimore, died suddenly on Wednesday.
James w. Jenkins, a former leather mer-
chant, died in Baltimore last Friday, in his
10Th year.
Alfred Ball, of IBall's Station, one of the
best known citizens OF Washington county,
was stricken with paralysis on Thursday.
The coopers engaged in the shops of VIM.
T. McCauley and jackson 1saacs at Ellicott
City, are on a strike for an advance in wages.
Charles E. Butler, who was recently con-
victed in the Circuit Court at Frederick of the
forgery of note for $50, has been sentenced
TO five years Imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The members of the Fifth Regiment are
| being disciplined. Some have been reduced
| in rank for non attendance at drills and some
six or eight privates have been fired for the
same offence.
The Business Mems Association of West
| Baltimore have sent Postmaster Brown a
copy of resolutions adopted by the executive
| committee of that body. thanking him for his
J
| station.
Mrs. Clara Wright has been awarded a YER
| dict for 81 900 against the Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore railroad on Wcdnes-
| day, by jury in the Cecil county circuit
| court, for injuries received while boarding a
train at Havre de Grace.
| The West Virginia Central, the South Penn.
| and the Western Maryland Railroad have all
| been making surveys in Washington county.
/ The discovery of gas and oil, which has been
pronounced of fine quality, is said to be the
cause of the railroad activity.
John Thomas Ross, colored, aged twenty
years, was convicted in the Criminal Court of
/ Baltimore city last Friday night of murder in
| the first degree in killing Emily Brown, AN aged
| street beggar, on Friday, December 10, 1886,
for the purpose of selling ner dead body for
I dissection.
Alfred Clagett, Edmund Peterson and Smith
Wells, the latter two colored attempted to
walk across South river, Anne Arundel coun-
ty, on the ice last Saturday night When
they were a short distance from shore the ice,
which had become weakened by the recent
thaw, gave way, and the three men went I'M
/ der and we're drowned.
The department of agriculture report on the
crops for the year 1886 has the following from
the State agent for Maryland "From some
cause there has been less area sown in wheat
than for some years past, and its present APP
pearance only indicates 81 per cent. of what
it should be at this time of the year. The
same may be said of rye"
A colored man named Alfred Potter, at
work i'll j. B. Harrington's woods, near Eas-
ton, made false stroke with his axe and cut
off his foot near the ankle. His companions
carried him to his home, two miles off, but
Potter bed to death on the way, no means
were taken to stop the flow of blood.
About So feet of the roof of the Cross coal
mine, situated four miles from Oakland, fell
in on Saturday, effectually closing the mine
for an indefinite period The miners had left
work and passed out less than five mintes
before the fall, and narrowly escaped being
buried alive. On Monday roof coal fell in the
Elk Garden Mine, No l., killing William
I Chichester. miner.
The town of Port Deposit is flooded from
four to seven feet deep, on account of the ice
gorge in the Susquehanna. An attempt to
blow up the ice near the b. and O. railroad
bridge, by the use of dynamite cartridges, was
failure. The explosion was terrific, the
watch on the bridge was wrecked,
large hay barrack belonging to Mr.. Tome =
and many other smaller buiididuuIl
1t is understoads6 s. =.
DHornla, whose
of the call to the
- of Easton induced q
might accept the bishop
possible to release himself from
hble charge of his present diocese.
sion episcopate, it is stated, will now
lain vacant until the annual convention of
The diocese in June.
A large number of Washington county
farmers attended the recent State farmers con-
vention in Baltimore, and, as was recon-
mended at the convention, the farmers of the
county are forming in the various districts
farmers clubs, whose object is mutual sr-
vancement by the discussion of importap.
measures at meetings to be held at stated i'm
tervals, and co. operation in combating the
various evils that beset farmers.
Charles Williams, colored, was sentenced
by Judge Morris, in the United States Dis
trict Court last Friday, to five years in the
penitentiary, upon plea of guilty of larceny
of stamps and other property from the post
office at Glyndon, Baltimore county, last De-
cember. This was his second offense at the
same place, and he had enjoyed his liberty
very little while. The first sentence was Jan.
Is, 1884, to the Concord penitentiary for three
years for breaking into the same building and
robbing the store kept there.
The case of Margaret Edith Prentice VS..
the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad Company, removed from Caroline
county, which had been on trial in the Circuit
Court for Dorchester county for four days,
was concluded last Friday. The jury rem
dered a verdict for the plaintiff, and assessed
her damages at S12, 800. The suit was origi-
nally brought to Caroline county, where the
plaintiff resides, to recover damages for in
iuries alleged to have been received by falling
through trap door in the water closet at the
depot in Chester, Pa, in December, 1885.
The damages were laid at $50 900.
The alleged killing of Thomas Fox, alias
Thomas NOVEL;, on board the schooner
Walter r. McGee, owned by Capt. Elisha
Ward, of CrisGeld, while lying in the waters
of Northumberland county, Va, about two
weeks ago, still remains mystery, so far as
the perpetrator of the supposed crime is con-
cerned The only thing authentic that can be
ascertained is that Capt. Dix and Fox had
dispute; that the mate, Robert l.. Reddlng,
ana several parties from Northumberland
county, all of whom had been drinking, be-
came involved in the quarrel; that several
blows were struck, and that Fox was knocked
overheard, and when taken in was dead.
| Governor Lloyd, Attorney General Rob
erts, Comptroller Turner, Treasurer Archer
and others had conference at Barnum's
Hotel on Wednesday to discuss the affairs of
the Susquehanna and Tidewater canals. The
Reading Railroad Company is trying to get
the courts to relieve it of the canal leases.
and as Maryland has 81 ZOO, 900 of the bonds,
with the annuity long in default, it becomes
necessary to look into the affairs of that
/ property. The last Legislature passed an act
empowering the comptroller to take steps for
settling for the arrears DUE the State, and the
State officers met to exchange views as to
their powers in the premises.
| A large trunk, expressed from New York
and addressed to 81. A. Wilson," was re-
ceived in Baltimore on Sunday. No one
called for it, and on Wednesday such an odor
was emitted from the trunk that it was re-
moved to police station and opened. Inside
was the body of man with the feet, legs and
left arm cut off and packed in with the trunk.
There was no head. The body was apparent
" that of a young man and the weight was
about 160 pounds On the body was a calico
shirt which had on it the name sc. Kant
hold" There were also several cards found
in the clothing bearing the name 81. D. Sic
| gel, butcher, Throop avenue, Brooklyn, e. d.,
/ We arc infnrmed that netitions arc heinU